St Josephs College - Phase Yearbook (Rensselaer, IN)

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I W' Y' ' 1-. ,J ' fig? QM , , Noll Hall Named for the Bishop of Fort Wayne Drexel Hall-Formerly an Indian Normal School ST. FSIPIFS QC ES Intercollegiate sports had been suspended during the years When the college was a preparatory seminary. The school reverted to its former status in 1931, a year also marked by the arrival of Coach Ray DeCooke, an All-American basketball player from Notre Dame. DeCooke led St. Joseph's back into the realm of college athletics. In 1931 also, the famous Lourdes Grotto in the south grove was erected, almost entirely by student labor. Winter of this year saw more than 100 sports enthusiasts vying for positions on the first Cardinal Varsity basketball squad in six years. Soon after this Work was begun on the present massive stone gates of Collegeville. In all its fifty years, the college must point to ,the month of June, 1935, as the setting for another memorable event in local history. The board of trustees laid plans for the enlarging of the school into a full four-year college of liberal arts and sciences. With this goal of a four-year college in view, Collegeville plunged into a period of building and adjustment that bade Well to out- shadow even the booms of earlier years. Work got under way at once on the new Science Hall addition to the gym building. The completion of this project in 1936 heralded the remodeling of the old Indian School across the highway. Thus arrives Drexel Hall to the modern scene. This home of the upperclassmen is named for Mother Catherine Drexel, whose donation to the American Indian Society made Indian education a reality here from 1887 until 1896.

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Whether it has been books or wide open spaces down through the years of St. Joseph's, students have found both to be abundant. The View above shows students reading in the outer room of the library. There are considerably more than 40,000 books in the present St. Joe library, or nearly 100 per student. Nor is the eighty-acre campus particularly confin- ing, as the bottom photo bears out. Today the College- ville grounds are viewed with respect by landscape experts, a tribute to the early Fathers who laid out the campus so amply. in , ' 'sie V -.-2-1. .Hs H n . f W - . . , -. Nw R WW f' .1 .Ja ' , X ,.- , ., . L , - n 1 2?fa?ZW6BiL.,,SQ.v,sii.f'?'1. Y-L

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.3 .1 , Gaspar Hall Seifert Hall, with Power Plant in Background A EA UELEEE Father Aloys Dirksen succeeded Father Cyril Knue as president in the fall of 1938. Work was nearing completion late in 1939 on Seifert Hall, named for Father August Seifert, the college's pioneer president. Came last spring and ground was broken for Noll and Xavier Halls, together with the Fieldhouse, which is being sponsored by alumni donations. Less conspicuous, a new kitchen furnished a fourth item, all of which were dedicated in this spring of 1941. Nor was the sputter of cement mixers unrivaled by other changes. In the fall of 1937 the old C0.l1Ugidl1 was discontinued, its place being taken by MUHSlll'C, a literary journal, and Sfujff, the campus weekly newspaper. Edward Fischer, alumnus of St. Joe, took up the work of the college news bureau, journalism classes, and the reorganiza- tion of the alumni, crystallized in the publication of C0lIftZC'f, the new grad newspaper. Social life came to Collegeville in this decade. The first formal Monogram Prom occurred in May, 1937. The first Homecoming dance was an event of the fall of 1939. Early in 1940 was the set- ting for the original Raleigh Club Valentine Ball. Coach DeCooke turned over the destinies of St. Joe athletics to Mr. Joseph Dienhart during the summer of 1938. -4.0 -V' E ,X ,ff s A XX X . ,.., , V Q .,.. , A I z X ,f il l X ff .1 W